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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

3.0 · 60 votes

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

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The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes op

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Jean Baudrillard

PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

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The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

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PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

3.1 · 56 votes · 167 reads

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

3.9 · 55 votes

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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

4.2 · 49 votes

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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

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NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

5.0 · 59 votes · 146 reads

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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

3.2 · 54 votes · 167 reads

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